Caution: This may cause your system to hang on boot. I must admit, I haven’t done a fresh install of this system since upgrading to Windows 10 1903, moving the NVMe drive from an older laptop to this machine, updating…
In the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s Gericom released various laptop models and was fairly popular in western Europe. These laptops were sold under the brands Gericom (mainly Germany), Advent (mainly in the UK and Ireland) and in Spain…
Windows 98 Setup Freezes when “Setting up programs on the Start Menu” When installing Windows 98 SE on a Dell Latitude D600, the installation freezes at the point after it finishes “Setting up programs on the Start menu” but before…
Install Drive Easy Free from: Start DriverEasy from “C:\Program Files\Easeware\DriverEasy\DriverEasy.exe”
Sometimes it’s necessary to install an old Operating System, but you really cannot (or don’t want to) get the old hardware out, even if it would still work.I was in such a position that I had to install Windows 2000…
When trying to connect, the app displays a message: Connection fail. Check your network settings and try again. The solution to this is that next to port 5000 and 5001, the port 6690 also has to be opened to the…
To remove from SCVMM: Open PowerShell with administrative credentials: PS C:\> $Credential = Get-Credential PS C:\> $VMHost = Get-SCVMHost -ComputerName “<Hostname of Server here>” PS C:\> Remove-SCVMHost -VMHost $VMHost -Credential $Credential The Get-Credential cmd-let will open a prompt in which…
VHDX files can take up a lot of unnecessary disk-space, especially if the disk is used for a lot of writes. A dynamic vdisk expands, but does not automatically compacts again.
Nowadays, instead of using .zip, .rar or .7z files, I find myself using virtual harddrives (.vhdx) more and more as it’s so much more convenient. However, extracting large amounts of compressed files, can be a very time consuming endeavor. Here…
The Download Maps Manager (MapsBroker) service is not started and is causing alerts in the Server Dashboard. This service just starts on demand and is normally not running. There are various ways to disable the service, as on a server…
